Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well taking our rivers , first of all , have the rivers of Sussex changed very much in recent years , and when I say recent years I mean over the last few centuries ? |
| 2 | The women I met in the refuge , and others I met in the first few weeks of my journey , stated their own investment in this book : they did n't want to be objects observed , they wanted to be its subjects . |
| 3 | I do not know how I came through the next few months — but , yes , I do . |
| 4 | We 're constantly reworking songs and I imagine in the next few months we 'll probably be reworking members too . |
| 5 | And I hope over the next few months that the people that 's present today and other people , get more involved in the campaign . |
| 6 | ‘ I am assuming the responsibility for all of my co-workers , both for those things I was aware of and for those things that I discovered in the last few days since the name of Olivetti began circulating . |
| 7 | As father said at the beginning of gruelling sessions in the vacs , the techniques I needed for the next few years — apart from those concerned with sport — dealt not so much with manual skills but with communication , both written and oral . |
| 8 | At least , this is how Mary , Freda and I felt for the first few weeks . |
| 9 | I think over the last few months , there 's been so much killing that maybe for me , that was the the watershed . |
| 10 | It was really only a very small group of students involved , but they got a lot of publicity and I think over the last few years it 's changed quite a lot . |
| 11 | Look back at any crises which occurred over the last few years . |
| 12 | It consists of a fortuitous , almost accidental , alliance between a particular fraction of development capital and New Right political reformers , not always particularly clearly articulated , which has in the last few years managed to don the cloak of inner city concern . |
| 13 | It is another reminder of the sporting prowess of the man , who as Cabinet Secretary could prove a key player in the political drama which unfolds over the next few days . |
| 14 | He also expressed irritation about the way Tony seemed to have let himself go in the last few months , since he had become unemployed . |
| 15 | This can be reduced a little if she goes in with all she needs for the first few days : a clean dressing-gown , slippers , a change of night clothes and bedjacket and all the toilet articles and other small items she is likely to want . |
| 16 | How many gigs have you missed in the last few months ? ’ |
| 17 | What you will think of it , I suspect , depends on your zodiac sign or whether you blubbed through the last few minutes of Peter Weir 's Dead Poets Society . |
| 18 | I 'm thinking of buying myself some ice skates , I 've been promising myself those , just , you know over the last few years when we have had a , just a bit , mind you there was one year about six years ago were n't it , where we were |
| 19 | well you know over the last few weeks we know that er |
| 20 | It 's a frustrating affair though — do n't think for a second that you can breeze through this game ; think yourself lucky if you get past the first few levels ! |
| 21 | Unless she died in the next few weeks — and why should she die ? — it could be the end of his life on the headland , the end of his organization , the end of all he had planned and hoped to do . |
| 22 | Again she went over the first few days of their itinerary in her mind . |
| 23 | She ran through the first few pages of each of the paperbacks , her mouth falling open as she read . |
| 24 | She ran through the last few streets and saw with relief the familiar tall building rising against the night sky . |
| 25 | We examine in the next few chapters what evidence there is to support this particularly bleak view . |
| 26 | As we begin for the next few weeks on Monday mornings with Jenny , A day in the life , A day in the life of Nottinghamshire County Council . |
| 27 | I reflected that I was sitting there letting her do so on the assumption that those notes would be our reference point for what we did over the next few weeks . |
| 28 | All the discussion we had in the last few days . |
| 29 | The tackle he made in the first few minutes when Giggs was straight through on Beeny must be enough to get him Young Player of the Year . |
| 30 | But Taylor stressed : ‘ I just have to wait and see how many games he plays over the next few weeks . ’ |